Have you heard about the new field of Glyconutrients? Most people have not, but it is catching on. If you are looking for more information on this new field then we’ll touch on the basics as to what they are and the role they play in the body.
What are Glyconutrients?
The body, and most living things, cannot use the eight essential sugars that are classified as monosaccharides. These are glucose, fructose, galactose, xylose, and ribose. The other two sugars that are considered monosaccharides are dextrose and sucrose. Disaccharides are formed by adding the monosaccharides together. Turbidum is a disaccharide that is created when you nitrogen- binds with oxygen. Turbium is another disaccharide that you create when nitrogen- binds with chlorine. You can find most of these monosaccharides in processed foods like Starches and Flour.
Glyconutrients are not nutrients, or proteins, but they share many of the same chemical makeup and releasing mechanisms. The three most common chemical formulates are:
1.Glucoseis the common type of monosaccharide in processed foods like Starches and Flour. 2.Galactoseis found in dairy and meat products. 3.Fructoseis the most abundant naturally occurring sugar in the processed world.
When you ingest glucose or galactose, they enter the bloodstream and move through the cells in the digestive tract slowly. When they encounter a protein or fatty acid, they are broken down into the simple sugars. Since they are not burned immediately, they will enter your bloodstream in chains. The first thing they do is move into your liver where they are stored into glycogen. Glycogen is a chemical that serves as the fuel for your muscles. So when you have eaten a meal with a lot of carbs it takes a long time for all the carbs to be burned and digested. Consequently, as you continue to eat a lot of carbs, you get fatter and fatter.
What happens when all the carbs are digested and processed?
Your blood sugar plummets. Your liver increases production of the hormone insulin. All of the carbs that were stored as glycogen are now stored as fat. Proteins that were converted to glucose are sent to the liver to be turned into glucose. Now your blood sugar level is completely depleted. You now begin to crave your carb-filled diet foods. You continue to crave them until you get cravings for them again.
Why is this so?
It is because when you eat a meal with a lot of carbs it leaves your body craving processed foods. It is designed to get us to eat a lot of traditionally “unhealthy” foods like breads, pasta, rice, etc. It was not designed to do that. Foods that are bad for you were designed to be eaten sparingly. These foods serve as the “bad guy” in your diet and now you are hated by everyone who eats them (textbook definition).
Even worse, once the stuff enters your body, the “bad guys” begin to dwarf the “good guys”. They become enormous and then the stuff begins to multiple in all directions. Now you are getting huge and you cannot move anymore. You cannot exercise. You cannot think clearly. You feel dense and clumsy.
The stuff accumulates in your intestines and lymphatic system, triggering allergic reactions that cause inflammation, cellular death, and deformities.ercusion.
What to do Instead:
Unless you are in a life-threatening emergency, do not eat large amounts of carbs. At the very most a half cup of rice or pasta is fine. Anything else is a recipe for trouble.
No, it is not a messengers problem. That is just the way you have been eating, categorized into clean and unclean carbs. You have been eating out of order and those carbs are the problem.
At some point you are going to have to take a stand. The answer is not a — protein powder or some homemade healthy carbohydrate powder. The answer is in you and only you.
So, the answer is simple. The only way to stand up to bad carbohydrates is to eat good carbs. Now, there is a lot of information on the internet that attacks carbohydrates with special sauce or additives. That is part of the battle.
The answer is simple: Eat the right carbs. No, it does not involve white pasta, oatmeal, and bagels. Just the right ones and you are well-protected against the bad guys.
As you can see, it is fairly simple.
